Book excerpt: A body is found in the vineyards of the Hayes Estate Winery in Napa Valley of California. Aaron Worthington, a senior editor with the Sydney Morning Herald, and Jeff Spencer, an American free lance writer are soon caught up with helping Sheriff Scoggins determine who committed the murder and why. Having discovered the body, Aaron and Jeff are drawn into helping solve another murder mystery. Half way around the world in the Australian Barossa Valley wine country, something is ruining the harvest and threatening death to the vines. Can the threat to the vines reach around the world to the Napa Valley? The plot continues to thicken as the dangers of genetic plant research being used as a tool by unscrupulous scientists appears as a possibility. Is this a case of corporate sabotage, international terrorism, personal economic gain? Can Aaron and Jeff save the vines? How is the relationship between Aaron and Jeff evolving?